Infants Understand that More Desirable Rewards Require More Effort (1 of 2) (video)

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In experiment 3 by Liu et al., the animated character was separated from each of the two targets by a horizontal gap in the supporting surface. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 24 November 2017 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Liu at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions."

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S. Liu et al., Science (2017)

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